Sir Thomas Browne :: a life /

Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intellectua...

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1. Verfasser: Barbour, Reid
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intellectual and social contexts in which he lived, including London, Winchester, Oxford, Montpellier, Padua, Leiden, Halifax, and Norwich. The book makes the case that, as his contemporariesfervently believed, Browne influenced the intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England in singularly r.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 534 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191669484
0191669482

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